Job title: Food Safety and Quality Assurance Technician
Company: AeroFarms
Expected salary:
Location: Danville, VA
Food Safety and Quality Assurance Technician Job Details:
Food Safety and Quality Assurance Technician
Who we are at AeroFarms:
The world needs our help. By 2050, there will be 9 billion people on the planet with less arable land than ever before. We need a solution to cultivate more using less and define the future of farming for generations to come. In 2004, AeroFarms began transforming agriculture with humans and our planet at the forefront.
In 2021, with 20+ current patents, 60+ pending patents, and 200+ invention disclosures, AeroFarms agriculture technology continues to grow unprecedented sustainable products, delivering elevated flavor, taste, experience, quality, access, and unmatched nutrition to you.
Here’s how we’re growing the best plants possible for the betterment of humanity:
- Researching and understanding plants to be better, more intuitive farmers
- Elevating local communities by increasing access to nutritious, high-quality, consistent, and safe products in a way that’s better for you and the planet
- Protecting and sustaining our environment for future generations
- Pioneering consistent, and scalable indoor vertical farming food safety & traceability practices, and manufacturing standards
- Investing in our AeroFarms humans and fostering our diverse company culture of inclusion, equity, excellence, teachability, and curiosity
Job Description:
Pay Rate: $20.00
The Food Safety Technician is Responsible for monitoring and documenting all food safety programs. Job functions may include but not limited to the following:
Responsible for monitoring product safety throughout the manufacturing process and ensuring the products meet AeroFarms’ standards and specifications.
Support compliance, monitoring, and trending of key programs including but not limited to GAP/GMP, Pest Prevention, Internal Auditing, Microbiological, and Environmental Monitoring.
Report food safety and quality non-conformances and deviations to Food Safety Supervisor. Placing the product on hold and further evaluation.
Enforce GMP and Food Safety policies to ensure that AeroFarm’s quality standards are always maintained.
Monitor’s food safety alerts on an ongoing basis; and effectively communicates to all functional departments on food safety information and updates.
Generate value for AeroFarms by anticipating, analyzing, solving, and preventing problems.
Perform Pre-Operational Inspections before start-up and report any inadequacies to the Food Safety Supervisor.
Complies with enforcement of all GMP policies, documentation, and record-keeping following company standards.
Special assignments upon request from the Sr. Manager, Food Safety and Quality Assurance
Ensure that all testing programs are consistent, and procedures are followed.
Communicate with Production when Critical Control Points (CCP) are out of control.
Ensure that all paperwork (documentation) is complete and accurate for each shift and each day.
Communicate all deficiencies and issues to the Director of FSQA.
Conduct product and packaging inspections
Enforce GMP and Food Safety policies to ensure that AeroFarms quality standards are maintained at all times.
Assist in the training of FSQA programs to staff.
Perform some basic in-house lab tests (product sampling, kosher testing, shelf-life evaluation)
What you’ll bring
B.S. in Food Science, Chemistry, or related field
1-2 years of experience in a food manufacturing environment or lab and knowledge of food safety
Proficient computer skills required. Experience operating in a Windows environment, managing files, and handling data.
Strong interpersonal skills, including conflict resolution.
Ability to work in a challenging and fast-paced environment with changing practices.
Ability to work in a cold environment (<40F) for long periods.
Ability to lift to 50 lbs.
Ability to walk, bend, and climb stairs.
Internal candidates seeking a promotion must have completed a minimum of six months in their current role before becoming eligible for consideration.
*Please note that AeroFarms does not work with any external staffing/recruitment vendors. Any unsolicited resumes shared with the AeroFarms team will be considered property of AeroFarms and no recruitment fees of any kind will be paid or owed unless an existing recruitment agreement exists alongside with specific engagement for the role in question.
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